Director's Spotlight: Research Engagement
Hazel Bateman from UNSW and Cathy Gong from ANU have been appointed as Directors of Research Engagement.
The posts have been created to engage our partners throughout the research process. This includes exchanging information to gain a stronger understanding of the knowledge gaps that exist within industry and government as well as identifying and arranging appropriate forums to bring stakeholders together.
"These positions are important in ensuring the ongoing relevance and impact of CEPAR's research work as we work toward bridging the knowledge gap around the challenges and opportunities presented by population ageing" said John Piggott, Centre Director.
If you would like to find out more about the roles or meet with Cathy or Hazel, feel free to contact CEPAR
2013 Annual Report
The 2013 Annual Report is being finalised for submission to the Australian Research Council.
The report details CEPAR's extensive array of activity in 2013, our third year of operation. Last year saw CEPAR employ a range of mechanisms to engage industry, government and the broader population.
Highlights include our first international conference, 117 journal publications and 61 research projects underway. The annual report also provides a comprehensive articulation of all of CEPAR's research projects. Divided into four strands, a feature that stands out across all strands and disciplines, is the extensive modelling work undertaken. CEPAR actuaries, economists, psychologists, epidemiologists and demographers, and their co-authors, model longevity risk, healthy life expectancy, demographic projections and economic outcomes.
Several specific areas of interest emerged in 2013: Risk management modelling around new products for funding retirement such as reverse mortgages and annuities; an examination of retirement decision making, including the involvement of government policy levers in the household decision making process; longevity modelling and the development of an Australian expertise in healthy life expectancy modelling. As with all areas of CEPAR research, this work makes a significant contribution to the evidence base required by policy makers and product providers.
The momentum gained in 2013 will ensure that CEPAR's agenda remains brimming through 2014. The 2013 Annual Report will be available shortly.
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Featured research
Individual Judgement and Trust Formation: An Experimental Investigation of Online Financial Advice. Using an online incentivized discrete choice experiment, authors Julie Agnew, Hazel Bateman, Christine Eckert, Fedor Iskhakov, Jordan Louviere and Susan Thorp study how well individuals judge financial advice and whether factors other than advice quality influence their evaluations.
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Researcher profile
Meet new Associate Investigator Tamara Jacka who has a background researching rural China and urban migration. Tamara has completed a research paper, scheduled to be published in June, that examines the impact of that migration on those, such as the elderly, who are left behind.
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In the news
ABC 7:30 Report
25 February 2014
John Piggott on budget sustainability and raising the retirement age
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Events 2014
Healthy Life Expectancies workshop for Early Career Researchers
17-19 June 2014, ANU
Applications OPEN
22nd Annual Colloquium of Superannuation Researchers
7-8 July 2014, UNSW
Abstracts submissions OPEN
FOR THE DIARY
Policy Dialogue - Population Ageing Retrospect and Prospect
1 July 2014, ANU
Details TBC
Academy of Social Sciences in Australia Annual Symposium
11 November 2014, Canberra
Details TBC
Emerging Researchers in Ageing
November 2014, Flinders University
Details TBC |
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